Things you did as an adult, but as a kid, your parents wouldn't let you

[logen]

leave food on my plate
eat ice cream for dinner
buy useless merchandise only for display
wear a cap in the house
watch cartoons and tell anyone to fuck off who thinks they are only meant for children under 10
stay up as long as I want

[ZennyPLUS]

Watch pornz.
Own a reptile.
Own more toys as an adult.
Argue?

[tmk]

eat supper without thanking a deity
wear shoes without socks
eat more than one pudding cup at a time

[ZennyPLUS]

eat supper without thanking a deity
wear shoes without socks
eat more than one pudding cup at a time

Whenever I eat with my parents, they still try to make me thank God and all that shit. Ain't gonna happen.

[Sinitron]

yell at them and punch back we will see who the REAL boxing champion is in this house you sons of bitches

[trent bortknob]

stay up late
go out and come back whenever i want and with whoever i want
wearing a hat in the house, yeah, but i don't do that anyways. but now i'd be able to if i wanted!
have alone time with my girlfriend

[rtil]

too many things to list

but even when i still lived at home during uni, they gradually accepted the fact that i had to kinda live on my own schedule and kinda let me do whatever

[DrRumack]

yell at people for being assholes

[emanhattan]

yell at people for being assholes

[zhicago]

go somewhere without having to tell mom where im going or when ill be back

buy a pizza without needing an explanation

not needing an explanation for anything, in general

[CoolDrMoney]

Drink and have sex

[Crabarms]

Cook. I wasn't allowed to cook anything until I was like 15 and even then still got bitched at. French fries were forbidden but I guess the french fries were understandable but still I was like 19 before I could even make them. Some how Ramen noodles were acceptable when I was like 12 but not grilled cheese. My siblings could do all that but I guess being the youngest made it excusable for them to not let me cook. Even as far as pancakes I couldn't make them until later on.

[trent bortknob]

Cook. I wasn't allowed to cook anything until I was like 15 and even then still got bitched at. French fries were forbidden but I guess the french fries were understandable but still I was like 19 before I could even make them. Some how Ramen noodles were acceptable when I was like 12 but not grilled cheese. My siblings could do all that but I guess being the youngest made it excusable for them to not let me cook. Even as far as pancakes I couldn't make them until later on.

yeah something like that was similar for me. it's not that i was not allowed to cook, per se. it wasn't a rule, it was just that my stepmom was usually in the kitchen and was cooking something, so if you tried to cook, it got in her way and/or she took it as an offense. like, "you don't want to eat what i'm making?". if my parents were gone my brother and i could cook, but they were very strict on what you could cook, you had to have a certain amount of balance to it (which isn't really a bad thing). also, if i tried to cook when people were home but not in the kitchen, i would get comments from her like "oh, you're not going to cook for everyone else?" as if making some food because i was hungry meant i had to assume everyone was hungry and feed everyone, and if i didn't i was some selfish asshole.
this is all after i moved to PA and my older brother was in college. back in texas when i only lived with my dad and my brothers i could cook whenever i wanted. things actually got stricter than ever after i moved to pennsylvania when i was 16.

really glad i don't live with my parents anymore.